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Investigating OneDrive Failures in Session 0 on Windows Server

Recently, customers using AlwaysUp to run OneDrive 24/7 have been reporting a puzzling problem. Even though OneDrive starts as a Windows Service in Session 0, it doesn’t do its job. Files aren’t synchronized and AlwaysUp reports that “OneDrive has no … Continue reading

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Visual Approvals Relies on AlwaysUp to Run Dropbox and OneDrive 24/7

Can you tell our readers a bit about Visual Approvals?   Visual Approvals is dedicated to empowering Australia’s building surveying businesses by simplifying the intricate building approval processes. Our mission is to reduce risk and foster growth within building certification businesses. … Continue reading

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Collecting Log Files from the OneDrive Desktop Application

Are you having a problem running OneDrive as a service with AlwaysUp? Perhaps OneDrive.exe is running but your files aren’t being synchronized with the cloud? We know that troubleshooting OneDrive in the isolated Session 0 can be difficult. Even if … Continue reading

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AlwaysUp 15: Helpful Diagnostics, plus Advanced Monitoring for Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive

Our team released AlwaysUp version 15 on December 8 — just in time for the holidays. 🙂 This time, we focused on making AlwaysUp better at identifying technical problems and providing excellent support when things don’t go as expected. Here … Continue reading

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OneDrive Doesn’t Sync Directory Junctions

What is a directory junction? A directory junction is an alias of one folder to another. Put another way, a directory junction allows you seamlessly access the contents of a folder from another directory, with a different path. For example, … Continue reading

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